Massachusetts voters could choose to keep or throw out a law that banned discrimination based on gender identity. In many campaigns, polling data and focus groups tell us that very few people are persuadable, so we ignore those voters and stick with talking to the voters who are already on our side. Third, we will help volunteer teams do data entry for volunteers. Topping, whos nonbinary, and others, went door to door. We trained our volunteers to connect with voters at the door on a personal and values level, not to talk at them with scripted talking points. Then, last month, the North Carolina General Assembly passed a bill preventing cities and counties from enacting their own anti-discrimination legislation, stripping existing protections. #KnockEveryDoor isnt currently supporting or opposing any particular federal, state, or local candidate, but instead we are providing materials for volunteers to support or oppose candidates of their choosing. David Fleischer is the Director of the Los Angeles LGBT Center's Leadership LAB. These scientists keep proving that reducing prejudice is possible. On the issue of transgender rights, the woman seemed mostly supportive but stopped at a nine. Which is to say: Republicans assume Democrats dislike them more than they actually do, and vice versa. If a group wanted to oppose him in the next election, you would want to have 50,000 conversations to change 5,000 voters minds. Study Finds Deep Conversations Can Reduce Transgender Prejudice A typical canvassing conversation might have ended there. Fleischer then returned to his scale, asking Nancy what number felt right for her now. Is First Republic Banks failure sign of a slow-motion banking crisis? In the full-conversation condition, 33 percent were in support. newsletter. battlefield: transgender rights. Deep canvassing is when volunteers and organizers engage in extended, empathetic conversations, with the goal of combating prejudice and shifting beliefs. Canvassers can get mugged, they can get lost, they can get attacked by wild geese, Michelson told me. Not so with deep canvassing. This recorded webinar gives a walkthrough of the deep canvassing design process including instructional materials, tips sheets, and sample scripts. The payoffs are small and incremental, but they are real. Think of any of our recent elections nobody is winning these things by 10 or 20 points. But the more they analyzed LaCours study design and results, the more problems they found. For her, the video seemed to clarify that Fleischer was specifically asking her about transgender people, a group she had no experience with and seemed to have little inherent empathy for. Broockman and Kalla were intrigued by LaCours findings and hoped to replicate it for an experiment measuring the Leadership Labs transgender canvassing. We will retain the data and also send the digitized data back to the volunteer. Theres still a script, but its designed to help the canvasser build a good rapport with a voter. (Its hard, he adds, to directly compare the two papers, though, since the 2016 effort focused a bit more on combating prejudice, and this one more so on policy. An interview with the West Kootenay EcoSociety (Canada) Executive Director who talks about how they came up with a script for climate change they tried over 60 scripts. What is a deep canvass and how is it different from a traditional canvass? It has also attracted controversy. Topping and dozens of other canvassers were a part of that 2016 effort. Across the street, a man in his late 30s who said he was liberal and pro-L.G.B.T.-rights moved to a five from an eight, explaining that he was deeply worried about the bathroom issue. The mans concern seemed informed by his experience in a New York City nightclub; he hinted at his discomfort standing at a urinal next to a drag queen. He and several collaborators struggled for years to get to this point. David Broockman and Josh Kallas measurement of this projects impact become the landmark study that brought deep canvassing into the national spotlight, proving that it had the power to lastingly reduce prejudice. I'm David McRaney, and this is the final segment about deep canvassing. In 2014, Fleischer and his team modified their canvassing work to persuade and mobilize voters by phone. To run a canvass you need staff, office space, voter lists, technology and more. Connecting and Inspiring Voters Through Deep Canvassing - MyLO Insights from Deep Canvassing: Proven Scripts for Transformational Outreach, The New Conversation Initiative, Netroots Nation, 2021 (Video 60 mins). Beginning in 2014, the Leadership Lab teamed up with Planned Parenthood to canvass in support of pro-choice policies. Kalla says some people came away from the canvasser feeling very differently and some people not so much at all.
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